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Poetics Today September 1, 2019 E. Bradburn
Is reading poetry good for you? Drawing on evidence that reading poetry involves some of the same brain structures as those upon which human psychological well-being depends, this essay argues that George Herbert’s devotional lyrics, long understood as Christian meditations, center on recurring images in a manner consistent with the modern practice of mindfulness meditation. There is a...
Medical Hypotheses September 1, 2019 Enrico Facco, Laura Mendozzi, Angelo Bona et al. 16 citations
The topic of multiple personality, redefined as Dissociative Identity Disorders (DIDs) in the DSM-5, is an intriguing and still debated disorder with a long history and deep cultural and epistemological implications, extending up to the idea of possession. Hypnosis is an appealing and valuable model to manipulate subjective experience and get an insight on both the physiology and the...
Nature Communications August 23, 2019 Adam Turnbull, Hao-ting Wang, Charlotte Murphy et al. 197 citations
When environments lack compelling goals, humans often let their minds wander to thoughts with greater personal relevance; however, we currently do not understand how this context-dependent prioritisation process operates. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) maintains goal representations in a context-dependent manner. Here, we show this region is involved in prioritising off-task thought in...
Activitas Nervosa Superior August 22, 2019 Christopher B. Germann 10 citations
Abstract 5-Methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (acronymized as 5-MeO-DMT) is sui generis among the numerous naturally-occurring psychoactive substances due to its unparalleled ego-dissolving effects which can culminate in a state of nondual consciousness (which is phenomenologically similar to transformative peak experiences described in various ancient contemplative traditions, e.g., Advaita...
Scientific Reports July 29, 2019 Chuan-Chih Yang, Alfonso Barrós‐loscertales, Meng Li et al.
Increasing neuroimaging evidence suggests that mindfulness meditation expertise is related to different functional and structural configurations of the default mode network (DMN), the salience network (SN) and the executive network at rest. However, longitudinal studies observing resting network plasticity effects in brains of novices who started to practice meditation are scarce and generally...
Frontiers in Neuroscience July 24, 2019 Benjamin Zimmerman, Megan Finnegan, Subhadeep Paul et al.
Mindfulness-based therapies have been introduced as a treatment option to reduce the psychological severity of tinnitus, a currently incurable chronic condition. This pilot study of twelve subjects with chronic tinnitus investigates the relationship between measures of both task-based and resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and measures of tinnitus severity, assessed with...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences July 16, 2019 Dana van Son, M. de Rover, F. D. de Blasio et al.
The ratio between frontal resting‐state electroencephalography (EEG) theta and beta frequency power (theta/beta ratio, TBR) is negatively related to cognitive control. It is unknown which psychological processes during resting state account for this. Increased theta and reduced beta power are observed during mind wandering (MW), and MW is related to decreased connectivity in the executive...
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience July 1, 2019 Tammi R. A. Kral, Ted Imhoff‐Smith, D. Dean et al.
Abstract Mindfulness meditation training has been shown to increase resting-state functional connectivity between nodes of the frontoparietal executive control network (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex [DLPFC]) and the default mode network (posterior cingulate cortex [PCC]). We investigated whether these effects generalized to a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course and tested for...
arXiv Preprint Archive June 12, 2019 Julio A. Peraza-Goicolea, Eduardo Martínez-Montes, Eduardo Aubert et al. preprint
Understanding the relationship between the structure and function of the human brain is one of the most important open questions in Neurosciences. In particular, Resting State Networks (RSN) and more specifically the Default Mode Network (DMN) of the brain, which are defined from the analysis of functional data lack a definitive justification consistent with the anatomical structure of the...
bioRxiv June 7, 2019 Shogo Kajimura, Naoki Masuda, J. K. Lau et al. preprint
Research has shown that mindfulness meditation not only improves our cognitive and motivational functioning (e.g., attention, mental health), it influences the way how our brain networks [e.g., default mode network (DMN), front-parietal network (FPN), and sensory-motor network (SMN)] function and operate. However, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the possibility that mindfulness...